Monday, 27 April 2015

I attended an Anne
Brooke workshop over at Creative
Threads in March where we learnt how to make a wall hanging by printing,
collaging then stitching. For our challenge i decided to try my hand at a larger version using bright
colours.

I downloaded a few vintage papers from our sponsor for this months challenge, The Old Design Shop

Used a technique that i have wanted to try for ages by Andy Skinner. Here is the link to a previous post showing how i made the papers i am using for
this project.

All the Media paints, Liquid Glass, Weathered Wood Crackle and
the Matt Decou-Page Glue and more are from DecoArt. The stamps and stencils are all by Andy
Skinner.

Tear up the papers and adhere them with a glue stick to a piece of blank newsprint paper. Choose the length of newsprint you want your wall hanging to be and collage as
you go along adding the colours and patterns as you wish. Don’t add too much
glue it is just to hold the pieces in place until you sew them down. My wall
hanging measures 24 inches long by 7.5 inches wide.

I like to save tea bags to craft/sew onto, when dry cut them open and remove the
leaves, you can get some wonderful patterns to play with. Round tea bags have
been coloured using three of the transparent colours from DecoArt and then dry
brushed with my favourite Quinacridone violet.

When complete add a little stamping and stencilling. Your fibres, fabrics,
metallic strips and more can be added once your piece has been sewn. You can add
some before you sew your hanging just make sure that your project is still thin
enough to put through a sewing machine. Add stitching over the top of your paper
edges to keep them in place.

Sunday, 12 April 2015

I'd like to thank all who joined our blog and our 'Anything Goes' challenge and left wonderful comments! We had such an amazing response to our first challenge. It really is heartwarming. We've all been keeping a close eye on the entries and really enjoyed seeing your beautiful creations. Very exciting to see them pop up on our blog indeed! We do hope you can join us again this month! We have a really fun theme. Before I tell you more however I have a real pleasure to announce our very first MMW#1 challenge Winner....

CONGRATULATIONS, Kavitha! Please email me (Ingrid) to claim your prize and to let me know if you would like to join our team next month as our Guest Designer. Please email to ingridscraftscorner @ hotmail. co.uk

Thank you for playing with us! Your make totally knocked our socks off!! :)

We have also chosen our FAB 3! There were so many amazing entries and if it was up to me I'd pick each and evey one of the entries, but we had to make the decision (my Goodness it was tough!) and choose only three on top of our winner...

Congratulations to you all! Please feel free to take the relevant badges and proudly display them on your lovely blogs! Thanks again for playing with us! I hope you can join us again with the next challenge...

Please note - I have set up a Pinterest Board called 'Designers' Favourites' where I have pinned the entries considered as Winners and FAB 3 and a few I thought particularly highly of and simply HAD TO PIN! Hop over to see if your make is one of them!

Julie's images are fantastic.. I'm not talking about digi images, but fantastic vintage images from books and other materials that you can use in your collages or other artworks. I love using Julie's images for image transfers. They are gorgeous!

MMW#2: USE BRIGHT COLOURS

The team have created wonderful projects, all very special in their own way. Different styles, various media used... it's a feast for eyes... check them out!